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Lattimore's Illiad is incredible, it leaves some of those confusing words and phrases in (famously, the numerous characters who speak "winged words") and it rem

Lattimore's Illiad is incredible, it leaves some of those confusing words and phrases in (famously, the numerous characters who speak "winged words") and it reminds you this is the product of a civilization that isn't yours, who had very different values yet remain very human.

dEnigma 9y ago
Interesting, "geflügelte Worte"(winged words) is a quite common expression in German (meaning, and I have to repeat myself here, "a commonly used expression of literary or historical origin"), but I never realized it originally came from the Illiad. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geflügeltes_Wort https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geflügeltes_Wort